j_garcia said:
I believe you must wire them in parallel (+ to +, - to -) for any internal crossover to function, so that will be your only choice. This is not biwiring, this would be "normal wiring" as you said, and this is what I would most likely recommend.
j_garcia
Either I don't understand your wording, or this is incorrect.
jdh
Do the terminals on the back of your speakers (are these speakers 2-ways?) look something like the picture? Two sets of terminals mean that the crossover circuits for the woofer and tweeter are electrically separated from each other instead of sharing common + and - inputs. You have two choices of connecting them.
On the speaker, you can join one + to the other + with a short jumper wire, and the same with the two - terminals. In the picture they are already joined with a brass jumper bar. Your speakers may have once had those, but the jumper wires will work the same. Then run zipcord from your amp to the speakers in the usual way with one wire going from the + terminal on the amp to either of the + plus terminals on your speaker, and the other wire going from - on the amp to either of the - terminals on the speaker.
The other way is the so-called bi-wire method. You need two lengths of wire for each speaker, but do NOT use any jumpers. Join two wires together at the + amp terminal, and two wires at the - amp terminal for each speaker. Run a pair to each of the + and - terminals. Electrically this is the same as the first method except you double the amount of copper wire. There is considerable debate whether bi-wiring offers any audible benefit. Let's sidestep that debate because there is no clear answer.
The idea behind using separate terminals for the woofer and tweeter is that it also allows bi-amping - the use of two separate amps (or amp channels) one for the woofer and one for the tweeter. Obviously it costs a lot more, but there is little debate about the benefits of doing this.
